. Tammany's treason, impeachment of Governor William Sulzer; the complete story written from behind the scenes, showing how Tammany plays the game, how men are bought, sold and delivered . s a spirit of levity among thesemembers of the senate noticeable to all beholders. To Patrick E. McCabe, clerk of the senate, credited withfiring the first broadside against the governor in June leadingto his impeachment, fell the rare pleasure of writing out, byhis own hand, the formal notice of removal to be served onGovernor Sulzer. It was brief and was as follows: The assembly of the state of New York, h


. Tammany's treason, impeachment of Governor William Sulzer; the complete story written from behind the scenes, showing how Tammany plays the game, how men are bought, sold and delivered . s a spirit of levity among thesemembers of the senate noticeable to all beholders. To Patrick E. McCabe, clerk of the senate, credited withfiring the first broadside against the governor in June leadingto his impeachment, fell the rare pleasure of writing out, byhis own hand, the formal notice of removal to be served onGovernor Sulzer. It was brief and was as follows: The assembly of the state of New York, having hereto-fore, to wit, on the 13th day of August, nineteen hundred andthirteen, presented to the senate of said state articles of im- Impeachment of Governor Sulzer 179 peachment against William Sulzer, governor of said state, andthe president of the senate having in accordance with lawsummoned the senators and the judges of the court of appealsof said state to meet as a court for the trial of impeachmentson the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred andthirteen, and the said court having convened on said day andthe said William Sulzer, governor of said state, having ap-. Patrick Edgar McCabe With the order of the High Court of Im-peachment removing WilHam Sulzerfrom office peared thereat by counsel and having filed his answer to saidarticles of impeachment, and the impeachment having beentried, and the court having by the vote of a majority of morethan two-thirds in number, convicted the said respondent ofthe charges contained in the first, second and fourth articlesof impeachment, and the court having resolved that for theoffenses of which he had been convicted the said WilliamSulzer be removed from his office as governor;// is hereby declared and adjudged that the said William 180 Tammanys Treason Sulzer be and hereby is removed from the office of governor of thestate of New York. The scene of vindictiveness was further heightened by thespectacle of Senator James


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